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I can't find any reference from post ascension times that states that. Explains why hemalurgy is still so problematic.

I don't think anyone currently alive is going to actually trust Szeth. Renarin as of right now can't even trust himself. Wit is obviously not trustworthy nor does he want to be trusted but certain people(Shallan, Adolin, Kaladin, maybe Dalinar and Jasnah) probably trust him anyway. Szeth's name will never be cleared but if he behaves perfectly he might be trusted by someone 20 years from now. Until we know what is going on with Renarin no one can trust him. Wit is not interested in trust. Shallan really just needs to come clean to her family at least.

Used well we could have a very interesting Navani vs Venli parallel examining the emotions and beliefs that motivate both of them. Also you could do some great dramatic irony with one of them knowing something that the other one really wants to.

Only that turning things into smoke is more valuable gram for gram then turning them into glass. Agreed but even during the gold standard years gold did not have a fixed price. Sort of true. I suppose you could say that they are rounding. However this.. Actually it is because people expect them to. I am just guessing here but what probably happened was that during the silver kingdoms in the desolation years commerce was pretty limited and standardized so people got so used to x being worth y that they act like it does even when it no longer really makes perfect sense. Vorin wage fixing laws are somewhat the same they reflected what things were like during a commercially static period and have become ingrained over time. Conditions are starting to change a little bit but it will take time for them to uproot themselves from the social consciousness. Or just because glass can be made cheaply without the use of soulcasters. I personally agree but that is not likely to change any time soon. People use fire for all sorts of things on Roshar. Worldhoppers just don't know how to manage it. If you are building with stone or want to clear a large area then soulcasting fire is probably the way to go.

Finally Bo has Ahsoka team up!

Jasnah can elsecall into shadesmar whenever she wants to. Venli also has the surge of transportation. Getting back as she says in OB is far more difficult and can only be done in certain places/at certain times. Given that Dalinar can undo Honor's word team radiant could also use the function of the oathgates that allows CR travel. I personally hope that someone goes in and stops the bottleneck of new Radiants. Maybe also gives us a view of Lasting Integrity and the cryptic city.

In making a sphere the gemstone is probably not cut correctly to hold stormlight and as such is worth less then afterward. Are they? The gold standard is what you can do with a soulcasert. Gems have intrinsic value on Roshar. A bit I suppose although convenience is going to counter a lot of that. ? Windows are often a bad idea on Roshar. Making blood is generally not worthwhile and air might be explosive. In the long term I agree but at the same time economic activity on Roshar is currently concentrated in the east. The Alethi are the center for large scale science and trade at the moment. It is generally better when it is.

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He couldn't.

A very very long time ago I encountered this WoB. Recently I did a reread of Mistborn Era two. It must of jogged my memory somehow because I suddenly thought this... and this... To anyone who has seen any Mistling in action this line sounds familiar. This led me to what seems now like an obvious theory. Saze uses his extra Ruin to snap people and to fuel their allomancy. This might explain why snapping is easier in era two and happens automatically. As Ruin notes in secret history. Preservation's power is not designed to make holes in things. Allomancy however depends on those holes existing in peoples souls. Using Preservation's power is like trying to drill with a mallet as opposed to the sharp implement that is Ruin's power. Also by making a large number of allomancers Sazed's power is bled off. Am I on to something or is quarantine with nothing to do making me go crazy?

I have been doing a reread of Mistborn Era 2 and I recently came across a couple of people that jarred me. Push and Pull. The pair of skilled alomancers that Suit assigned to Miles. Neither of them are ever described in great detail. The only things that we know about them is that they are skilled alomancers and intently loyal to Suit. Willing in fact to kill for him on an order. They also rarely talk. Then I got to thinking. The Set plans ahead. Their operatives are intensely loyal. A lot (too many) of them are metalborn. Suit is always accompanied by 20. They kidnap woman for alomantic blood during AoL and according to Wax they almost never successfully ID any of the Set's people. What if a breeding program has already been going on for some time. Trell's worship certainly has. Aided by time bubbles they could produce a large number of operatives in a short period of time. Eventually they will have a Mistborn by breeding them but in the meantime they can loyal operatives that are thoroughly indoctrinated and completely untraceable.

It does on Roshar and it did on earth back during the gold standard.\ I don't think they do. Spheres might just be a carefully weighed out and cut piece of a larger gemstone that was shattered during a soulcasting or from being part of a fabrial. The books are pretty clear that gemstones are worth as much as the average amount of stuff that can be soulcast from them. Rubies are probably valuable because turning things to fire is handy during some types of construction. But they do. Their intrinsic value is how much someone with a soulcaster will pay for them. Soulcasting things to fire is great for construction, waste disposal, just to name a few. I am somewhat baffled by their use as well but the books speak for themselves. Well that is depressing. However it is kind of moot as any argument for what things will look like after the war is based on the assumption that they survive the war. I am not 100% sure that the 5% are better off. Unlike during normal wars rich people are just as likely to die in many cases as poor ones. Only problem is that this actually makes a deflationary period. Opening a new breeding operation is not possible without investment and during a period of deflation investment is super hard. We have no idea as to the likeliness. I am simply using what was available in terms of information. They don't really seem to be wage earners and commerce in Roshar is pretty limited. Hesina is able to communicate with her family already using conventional methods. I don't see why she would spring for a much more expensive option. That is actually really bad for average people. Possibly. True.

I think this actually might be the problem. On Roshar total war was discovered much earlier. Killing off 10% of Azir's population is not something that most middle ages people would have been capable of even if they wanted to simply because their army would run out of food.

A bit maybe. Certain urban populations do substitute with soulcasters but that seems to be more of a temporary fix in response to crisis. Soulcasting requires gemstones of great value and I do not think tax revenue systems are sophisticated enough to continuously buy them. That is definitely a valid point. It also might be on lone from Winslow. However Kaladin and his bridgeman cannot afford a clock according to Sigzil in WoR(this is working for Dalinar at triple pay). Spanreeds were just the ones that we had good descriptions of. Even if not the absolute cheapest they should still be very cheep. It could. This is another one of the reasons I used spanreeds. Spanreeds are probably about as streamlind as they possibly can be given the number that are produced and their eminent usefulness. Could you elaborate on why that would help? Current values for gemstones are the average amount of stuff you can make with a soulcaster before it breaks. This holds true for both radiants and soulcasters. We have no information that indicates that when radiants use gemstones that soulcasting is more efficient or that gemstones brake less often. I think it more likely that it increase given that the number of possible uses is increasing and the supply is not. Gemstones are Roshar are either grown, hunted or mined from beds of already dead animals. They might find a way to grow them faster or breed animals that produce larger ones but I find it difficult to believe that this will happen quickly. In fact given the number of gemstones that are hunted and Shallan's estimate that this approaches extinction for at least the chasmfiends supply may decrease farther.

Congratulations on reading this after that title. However I wanted to talk about what was in there. Recently I have encountered a long standing disagreement between different members of the shard(including myself) about what Roshar's immediate future is going to be like assuming they survive the current desolation. I just wanted to put forward my view for discussion for those who are interested. Skip if you find the math of economics and production boring. Roshar is different from earth in a lot of ways but in terms of technology they use fabrials in place of nearly anything that is earth equivalent. There are two interesting thing about fabrials that are of importance to this discussion. The first which I discuss here is that they require gemstones. From Kaladin's bridge four run we know that a well paid freeman doing manual labor in an "urban" environment earns two clear marks a day plus minimum room and board. A mark is the second smallest Rosharan denomination worth five chips which are each worth a piece of street candy. The smallest and probably least expensive fabrail we have seen is the spanreed. Spanreeds are extremely simple and useful so their production has most likely been streamlined and a great deal of study has been put into making them as inexpensive as possible. The description indicates that they require a pair of rubies of at least a broam each (really one ruby split) to manufacture. For reference that is equal to 400 chips(probably more due to the fact that the gem was more valuable before splitting). If you take that and add a 100% for manufacture and transporting costs you end up with 800 chips or three months pay just to get the cheapest widely available fabrial. It gets worse. Most Rosharans have no capital and are not real wage earners. Assuming Roshar follows earth patterns in this respect at least 75% of the population should be working in these food production with very limited expendable income. Of the remaining 25% (described here https://medium.com/@zavidovych/what-we-can-learn-by-looking-at-prices-and-wages-in-medieval-england-8dc207cfd20a) odds are a good that most of them were working bridgeman wages and would want to save disposable income for expenses or insurance. The fifth who are better off or 5% of the population will probably be making around three times that so it will still take them a month's earnings to acquire a single spanreed pair. Bottom line. The gemstones that are required https://coppermind.net/wiki/Spheres are generally too expensive for a good 95% of Rosharans to afford and most of the remaining five percent are going to have to save for long periods of time to own items that will increasingly become necessary for their business and trade. This brings us to the second fabrial oddity. Only a few people are required to make any given fabrial and making a complex one seems fairly easy. Acquiring and cutting the necessary gemstone is really the only difficult part. Both the spren and the stormlight can be had for free as far as we know and the metal parts don't seem any like a challenge for a competent blacksmith. This means wide scale cooperation is not required for building one. Most fabrials also last a fairly long time so for those with money, including the Alethi nobility, fabrail conveniences will be widespread. It is more then possible for an Alethi highprince to enjoy a standard of living and have the conveniences associated with an earth household of the 1960s. Lower level nobles will enjoy some of these benefits as well. In cities some fabrails may also be used in public works assuming intelligently minded civic planers. However the high costs and the reality of economic unfairness and inequality that exists on Roshar indicates that baring some radical change in another generation hearthstone will look exactly as it does now. The individuals who live there will have the same or a similar standard of living and preforming the same kind of subsistence farming. Sad as it may seem well the common man may know about fabrials odds are that despite them existing he will own none. At the same time the wealthy will enjoy a high standard of living and a large number of modern conveniences at comparatively little cost. I welcome all comments criticisms and analysis.

Do you have a magic system oh one who got RsharaWoBsmashed?

Why are you frustrated?

Fight to Win!

There is a huge shake up in the comic book world going on still because a writer was bold enough to have iceman come out as gay(for none comic fans iceman is one of the OG x-men who had there first comic in the 60s and is famous for flirting with every female character in marvel). However when I went back and read the older comics the thing I kept thinking was "this guy is totally gay."

I envy your excitement. I pride myself on using a local bookstore so I have to wait a few months to place my order.

I should have said "supposed to come first." Editing now.

So in this we have an answer. Shardbearers can't hold ground. Simply having fused strike without supporting troops reduces the number of parshe bodies you have without doing permanent damage.

SA four is still needs some serious editing. Also we don't have the Rysn novella yet which should be released first. Also if you think you need it now imagine how much more you will need it later.